S. G. Vombatkere vs. Union Of India

ITEM NO.16

COURT NO.1

SECTION PIL-W

SUPREME COURT OF INDIA RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS

<pre>Writ Petition(s)(Civil) No(s).682/2021</pre>

S.G. VOMBATKERE

Petitioner(s)

VERSUS

UNION OF INDIA

Respondent $(s)$

WITH

W.P.(Crl.) No. 106/2021 (X) (WITH IA No. 87150/2021 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING AFFIDAVIT, IA No. 78482/2021 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING AFFIDAVIT, IA No. 27982/2021 -EXEMPTION FROM FILING AFFIDAVIT, IA No. 86234/2021 - INTERVENTION APPLICATION, IA No. 78477/2021 - INTERVENTION APPLICATION, IA No. 77708/2021 -INTERVENTION APPLICATION, IA NO. 77529/2021 -INTERVENTION APPLICATION, IA No. 27978/2021 - PERMISSION TO FILE LENGTHY LIST OF DATES)

$W.P.(C)$ No. 552/2021 (X) (WITH IA No. 62095/2021 - APPROPRIATE ORDERS/DIRECTIONS)

W.P.(Crl.) No. 217/2021 (X) (FOR ADMISSION and IA No.62627/2021-EX-PARTE STAY)

CONMT.PET.(C) No. 300/2021 in SMW(C) No. 3/2021 (PIL-W) (WITH IA No. 62813/2021 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING AFFIDAVIT)

W.P.(C) No. 773/2021 (PIL-W)

W.P.(Crl.) No. 304/2021 (PIL-W) (WITH IA NO. 84068/2021 - APPLICATION FOR EXEMPTION FROM FILING ORIGINAL VAKALATNAMA/OTHER DOCUMENT)

W.P.(Crl.) No. 307/2021 (PIL-W) (WITH IA No. 85962/2021 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING AFFIDAVIT, IA No. 85946/2021 - STAY APPLICATION)

W.P.(C) No. 802/2021 (PIL-W)

W.P.(Crl.) No. 498/2021 (PIL-W)

Signal $\bullet$ Pierfie^(C) No. 1181/2021 (PIL-W) Digitally signed by Date: $2032-05.02$ 16:00 W P. (C) No. 1279/2021 (PIL-W)

$W.P.(C)$ No. 1381/2021 (PIL-W) (WITH IA No. 168874/2021 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING AFFIDAVIT) W.P.(Crl.) No. 408/2022 (X) (WITH IA No. 154155/2022 - EX-PARTE STAY, IA No. 154157/2022 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING O.T.)

W.P.(Crl.) No. 216/2021 (X) (WITH IA No. 62612/2021 - APPLICATION FOR EXEMPTION FROM FILING ORIGINAL VAKALATNAMA/OTHER DOCUMENT, IA No. 65270/2021 - APPLICATION FOR PERMISSION, IA No. 62611/2021 - APPROPRIATE ORDERS/DIRECTIONS, IA No. 65272/2021 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING AFFIDAVIT)

CONMT.PET.(C) No. 301/2021 in SMW(C) No. 3/2021 (PIL-W) (WITH IA No. 62909/2021 - APPLICATION FOR EXEMPTION FROM FILING ORIGINAL VAKALATNAMA/OTHER DOCUMENT, IA No. 65211/2021 - EXEMPTION FROM FILING O.T., IA No. 65210/2021 - PERMISSION TO FILE ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTS/FACTS/ANNEXURES)

Date : 01-05-2023 These matters were called on for hearing today.

CORAM :

HON'BLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE J.B. PARDIWALA

	For Petitioner(s)	Mr. Anoop G. Choudhri, Sr. Adv.
		Mr. Sanjai Kumar Pathak, AOR
		Mr. Aditya Ranjan, Adv.
		Mr. Arvind Kumar Tripathi, Adv.
		Mrs. Shashi Pathak, Adv.
		Ms. Vrinda Grover, Adv.
		Mr. Soutik Banerjee, Adv.
		Mr. Aakarsh Kamra, AOR
		Ms. Devika Tulsiani, Adv.
		Ms. Mannat Tipnis, Adv.
		Mr. Sanjay Parikh, Sr. Adv.
		Ms. Aparna Bhat, AOR
		Ms. Karishma Maria, Adv.
		Mr. Prashant Bhushan, AOR
		Mr. Rahul Gupta, Adv.
		Ms. Alice Raj, Adv.
		Mr. P. B. Suresh, Adv.
		Mr. Vipin Nair, Adv.
		Mr. Karthik Jayashankar, Adv.
		Mr. Prasanna S., AOR
		Mr. Arindam Ghosh, Adv.
		Ms. Swati Arya, Adv.
		Mr. Yuvraj Singh Rathore, Adv.
		Mr. Vinayak Mishra, Adv.

Mr. P.B.suresh, Adv. Mr. Vipin Nair, AOR Mr. Arindam Ghosh, Adv. Mr. Agnish Aditya, Adv. Mr. Karthik Jayashankar, Adv. Mr. Vinayak Mishra, Adv. Ms. Prerna Singh, Adv. Mr. Guntur Pramod Kumar, AOR Mr. Amarjit Singh Bedi, AOR Mr. Prashant Kumar, Adv. Mr. Amit Singh, Adv. Mr. Varun Chandiok, Adv. Ms. Riya Seth, Adv. Mr. Colin Gonsalves, Sr. Adv. Mr. Satya Mitra, AOR Ms. Mugdha, Adv. Mr. Gopal Sankranarayanan, Sr. Adv. Ms. Pooja Dhar, AOR Ms. Jhanvi Dubey, Adv. Ms. Ishita Chowdhury, Adv. Ms. Shivani Vij, Adv. Ms. Tanya Shrivastava, Adv. Ms. Aditi Gupta, Adv. Ms. Trisha Chandran, Adv. Dr. K.S. Chauhan, Sr. Adv. Mr. Ajit Kumar Ekka, AOR Mr. Ravi Prakash, Adv. Dr. K. Elumalai, Adv. Mr. Abhishek Chauhan, Adv. Mr. Ajit Kumar, Adv. Mr. Sunil Kumar, Adv. Petitioner-in-person Mr. Fuzail Ahmad Ayyubi, AOR Mr. Ibad Mushtaq, Adv. Ms. Akanksha Rai, Adv. Mr. Chander Uday Singh, Sr. Adv. Mr. Rahul Narayan, AOR Mr. Apar Gupta, Adv. Mr. Gautam Bhatia, Adv. Ms. Vrinda Bhandari, Adv. Mr. Abhinav Sekhri, Adv. Mr. Tanmay Singh, Adv. Ms. Ramya Dronamraju, Adv. Ms. Gayatri Malhotra, Adv.

For Respondent(s) Mr. R Venkataramani, Attorney General for India Mr. Tushar Mehta, Solicitor General Mr. Suryaprakash V Raju, A.S.G. Mr. K M Nataraj, A.S.G. Mr. N Venkataraman, A.S.G. Mr. Rajat Nair, Adv. Mr. Kanu Agrawal, Adv. Ms. Suhasini Sen, Adv. Mr. Balaji Srinivasan, Adv. Mr. Madhav Sinhal, Adv. Mr. K Parameshwar, Adv. Mr. Siddhant Kohli, Adv. Mr. Arvind Kumar Sharma, AOR Mr. Anandh Venkataramani, Adv. Mrs. Vijayalakshmi Venkataramani, Adv. Mr. Vinayak Mehrotra, Adv. Ms. Mansi Sood, Adv. Mr. Chitvan Singhal, Adv. Ms. Sonali Jain, Adv. Mr. Abhishek Kumar Pandey, Adv. Mr. Raman Yadav, Adv. Vatsal Joshi, Adv. Mr. Rahul G. Tanwani, Adv. Mr. B.K. Satija, Adv. Mr. Vinayak Sharma, Adv. Mr. Piyush Beriwal, Adv. Mr. Gurmeet Singh Makker, AOR Mr. Shreekant Neelappa Terdal, AOR Mr. Tushar Mehta, Solicitor General Mr. KM Nataraj, A.S.G. Mr. Kanu Agrawal, Adv. Mr. Pratyush Srivastava, Adv. Mr. Anirudh Bhatt, Adv. Mr. Annirudh Sharma II, Adv. Mr. Amrish Kumar, AOR Mr. C S Vaidyanathan, Sr. Adv. Mr. Mahfooz Ahsan Nazki, AOR Mr. Polanki Gowtham, Adv. Mr. T Vijaya Bhaskar Reddy, Adv. Mr. K V Girish Chowdary, Adv. Ms. Niti Richhariya, Adv. Ms. Rajeswari Mukherjee, Adv. Mr. Sriharsha Peechara, Adv. Mr. Rajiv Kumar Choudhry, AOR Ms. Pallavi, Adv. Mr. Duvvuri Subrahmanya Bhanu, Adv. Mr. S.Udaya Kumar Sagar, AOR

Mr. Debojit Borkakati, AOR Mr. Vishal Prasad, AOR Ms. Ritika Sethi, Adv. Ms. Ruchira Gupta, Adv. Mr. Shishir Deshpande, AOR Ms. Harshita Sharma, Adv. Mr. Deep Narayan Sarkar, Adv. Ms. Pooja Tripathi, Adv. Mr. Himanshu Tyagi, A.A.G. Mrs. Poonam Sharma, Adv. Mr. Kaleeswaram Raj, Adv. Mrs. Anu K Joy, Adv. Ms. Thulasi K Raj, Adv. Mr. Alim Anvar, Adv. Mr. Nishe Rajen Shonker, AOR Ms. K. Enatoli Sema, AOR Ms. Limayinla Jamir, Adv. Mr. Amit Kumar Singh, Adv. Ms. Chubalemla Chang, Adv. Mr. Prang Newmai, Adv. Mr. Sandeep Kumar Jha, AOR Mr. Sameer Abhyankar, AOR Ms. Nishi Sangtani, Adv. Ms. Vani Vandana Chhetri, Adv. Ms. Sugandh Rathore, Adv. Mr. Jaswant Singh Rawat, AOR Mr. Kuldeep Parihar, Adv. Ms. Ikshata Parihar, Adv. Mr. Satish Singh, Adv. Dr. Joseph Aristotle S., AOR Mr. Sanjeev Kaushik, Adv. Ms. Ripul Swati Kumari, Adv. Ms. Astha Sharma, AOR Mr. Arvind Datar, Sr. Adv. Ms. Nisha Bhambhani, Adv. Mr. Rajat Arora, AOR Mr. Rahul Unnikrishnan, Adv. Mr. Harshvardhan Kotla, Adv. Ms. Vishakha Gupta, Adv. Mr. Rohan Alva, Adv.

Ms. Gayatri T, Adv. Ms. Mariya Shahab, Adv. Ms. Resmitha R. Chandran, AOR Mr. Namit Saxena, AOR Mr. Sharath Chandran, Adv. Mr. Awnish Maithani, Adv. Mr. Shivam Raghuwanshi, Adv. Ms. Shiksha Ashra, Adv. Mr. Kaleeswaram Raj, Adv. Mrs. Anu K Joy, Adv. Ms. Thulasi K Raj, Adv. Mr. Alim Anvar, Adv. Mr. Nishe Rajen Shonker, AOR Ms. Swati Ghildiyal, AOR Ms. Deepanwita Priyanka, Adv. Ms. Devyani Bhatt, Adv. Mr. Vishal Meghwal, Adv. Ms. Yashika Bum, Adv. Mr. Milind Kumar, AOR Mr. Kaleeswaram Raj, Adv. Ms. Thulasi K Raj, Adv. Mr. Mohammed Sadique T.a., AOR

UPON hearing the counsel the Court made the following O R D E R

• 1 Mr R Venkataramani, Attorney General for India, states that, in pursuance of the order dated 11 May 2022, the Government has initiated the process of reexamining the provisions of Section 124A of the Indian Penal Code 1860 and the consultations are at a substantially advanced stage.
• 2 In view of the above submission, on the request of the Attorney General, we direct that the proceedings be posted on 8 August 2023.

(SANJAY KUMAR-I) (SAROJ KUMARI GAUR) DEPUTY REGISTRAR ASSISTANT REGISTRAR

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